The water protectors of Standing Rock

The Water Protectors of Standing Rock

Close On the night of November 20, in 25-degree weather, police shot water cannons into a crowd of activists huddled on a bridge on Highway 1806 in North Dakota. The activists, who call themselves “water protectors,” object to Energy Transfer Partners’s (ETP) plans to drill a segment of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) under the Missouri…